CygnusDarius:Imagine if we found both oil and diamonds there. We'd suddenly see Shell and DeBeers investing in space exploration... Which would be awful nice of them, if you ask me.

Yeah, I used to joke that if there was oil on Mars we'd be there...

The extraction companies don't want more of the product on the market. They just want to feed enough into the system to keep the prices high but not so high alternatives work out. On the plus side this means they are, in effect, conserving resources for future years, but at the expense of a rigged market and questions of geopolitical stability.

Exo-planetary colonies are not to the benefit of the corporations old fashioned resource shifting matters unless there is something out there that simply isn't here and where providing it would not cause the price to drop below the cost of extraction.

If you want off this rock it'll have to either be cost justified, the work of government, or a religious movement. If SETI catches sight of a distant civilization the Mormons will be ready to visit in 10 years.

wildcardjack:CygnusDarius: Imagine if we found both oil and diamonds there. We'd suddenly see Shell and DeBeers investing in space exploration... Which would be awful nice of them, if you ask me.

Yeah, I used to joke that if there was oil on Mars we'd be there...

The extraction companies don't want more of the product on the market. They just want to feed enough into the system to keep the prices high but not so high alternatives work out. On the plus side this means they are, in effect, conserving resources for future years, but at the expense of a rigged market and questions of geopolitical stability.

Exo-planetary colonies are not to the benefit of the corporations old fashioned resource shifting matters unless there is something out there that simply isn't here and where providing it would not cause the price to drop below the cost of extraction.

If you want off this rock it'll have to either be cost justified, the work of government, or a religious movement. If SETI catches sight of a distant civilization the Mormons will be ready to visit in 10 years.

Well, SETI and NASA could, instead, say that there's an aggressive civilization bent on our destruction due to X reason, and they plan to invade Earth.

And this planet clearly has "night" once a day since the two other stars are rather distant. Still when the two distant stars are overhead at night it certainly won't be pitch black but you probably be able to see the brighter stars. Also this planet is a gas giant. But a moon might be habitable though that would obviously eclipse the two nearby stars fairly frequently. (I can't wait for exo-moons. Some has a project to discover some.)

Of course if we waited for an Earth-like planet with six stars we might have to really wait for a very long time. It certainly beats the tired Star Wars reference until George Lucas reads about this and puts in two additional stars in Tatooine's sky in yet another revision.

Iirc the two stars the planet doesn't orbit are at 1000 times the earth-sun distance. Even at Pluto's distance (40 au) the sun is pretty tiny, so statements like "this planet had N sunrises/sunsets" are somewhat misleading. Still pretty awesome though.